Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: A Polar Bear Hanging Out And Looking

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Year1973
Decade1970s
LocationColorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1973 Colorado

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Colorado Springs Colorado USA — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, showing a polar bear in a zoo enclosure. The white bear stands on rocky terrain near a stone den structure, looking around curiously. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, faded color saturation, and natural lighting typical of amateur archival footage. The bear's movements are slow and deliberate, capturing a moment of quiet observation in a man-made habitat. This authentic, unscripted wildlife scene offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century zoo life and home movie culture.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120961212

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel 1382 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: air force academy,cripple creek,cheyne zoo,broadmoor,#2
Reel-level year note: 1973
Reel-level location note: colorado springs
Date: 1973 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1970s editorial projects needing brief zoo wildlife footage, especially a visitor-shot cutaway of a polar bear in a constructed enclosure.
Period detail: The faded color, 8mm framing, and rocky man-made zoo habitat support the 1973 Colorado Springs home-movie context provided in the metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor perspective, with the camera observing zoo animals from a public viewing position rather than directing action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white polar bear, rockwork, a stone den-like structure, enclosure walls, grass, shrubs, and a group of pale birds in the lower frames.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, muted color, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet frame edges that give it clear physical-film archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, wildlife cutaway, zoo-life transition, or quiet memory beat within a broader 1970s travel or family-film sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents a mid-1970s zoo visit as seen through amateur home-movie filming, showing animals in designed public enclosures without visible visitors in these frames.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright status and any location or animal-facility permissions separately from likeness concerns.
Research search match: Likely researcher matches include 1973 Colorado Springs zoo polar bear, 1970s 8mm zoo footage, vintage home movie polar bear enclosure, and archival zoo wildlife cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado Springs material, then with broader 1970s zoo, wildlife, and family travel clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

A polar bear stands on rocky terrain near a stone den-like structure in 1973 Colorado Springs zoo home-movie footage. — Polar bear in rocky zoo enclosure.

The polar bear turns its head within a rocky zoo habitat, with a stone shelter and enclosure rockwork visible behind it. — Bear looking across the enclosure.

A group of pale birds, possibly flamingos or similar zoo birds, gathers on a grassy area near shrubs and a tall fence in the same zoo setting. — Zoo birds gathered on grass.

Pale zoo birds rest and stand in a grassy enclosure bordered by shrubs and fencing, seen in faded 8mm color. — Birds in grassy zoo enclosure.

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